The Global Politics of Large Dams: Notes on Christopher J. Sneddon’s Concrete Revolution

Abstract

Review article on

Christopher J. Sneddon, Concrete Revolution: Large Dams, Cold War Geopolitics, and the US Bureau of Reclamation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 270pp., USD 45, hardcover).

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